03-02-2026 MetroNews Hotline Presented by Salango Law Hour 1

0:00This is Metro News Hotline, presented by Salango Law. Metro News Hotline is a three-hour audio tour, navigating the world of sports, news, entertainment, tech, and more. From a mountain-state point of view. For your entertainment, Hotline is a no-politic zone. You can join the conversation. Text the show at 304-825-5304. 304-Talk 304. We're called 800-765-8255. Here's the host for Metro News Hotline. Dave Weekly. All right, hello, us Virginia. We're back for more on the 304. Time to get it done in the 681. Time to start this three-hour audio tour for Monday, March 2nd, 2026. Metro News Hotline comes to you from the Salango Law Studios.

1:01Visit salangolaw.com. All look at us. We're all here together where we need to be. Coops and the booth. Coopers, you have to determine your role, whether or not to turn the light on in there. Yeah, it's just Davey. The business on the box tonight, if Stephanie is in Charleston, for reasons I won't explain. I'll leave this unexplained so people can just wonder what that is. I'm just wondering what the heck I'm talking about. So basically, if Stephanie is in the box in Charleston, I do not have to turn on my studio light. If Stephanie is not in the box in Charleston, I do have to turn on my special studio, Coop Light. She's in the box. Okay, I was going to say she's doing a bunch of stuff back there and I don't know if she's able to join us. So I hear the phone ringing. She's sort of like handyman. You can't say your name three times without her calling in. Yeah, it's like magically appear if you say my name three times. All right. So basically, Coop can't have a light on in there because I have all the power in here going. So if you turn the light on, then everything goes black.

2:01Okay. Okay. Seems fair. Here, you know, here's a bit we need to do as we work out our show on the air live is the next time you come in there and Stephanie's in the box and you're in the dark in the booth coop. She needs to call and tell you to turn the light on. Yeah. That would be, that would be, might be funny. But then I'll just say sure and do it. I can't tell whether it's on or not. Oh, that's true as well. I can't see his camera anywhere. All right. How are you doing, Ryan? Going to go ready to go for another week. Yeah. Another week of shows. Um, Coop, guess the temperature. Oh, I don't know. I don't know. Kind of chili and rainy. If I, it's feeling curtshilling it out there. He's kind of cold and rainy. It's Sydney Thornton of the Steelers out there. See what was curtshilling. He was like 40 or something like that. 30. 30. 30. Oh, yeah, check that. And you're wrong. My phone says it's 44.

3:02Well, see, this is another one of those things that, that, you know, depends on the weather station that you're at. You know, one of my, one of the red flags I threw up right away is if one of was a player like Michael Jordan who played under different numbers, you know, he could be 45 or whatever. 23. And he had that one, uh, one game where he wore another jersey because it got stolen in a window or something. Right. So I'm just saying that, you know, theoretically speaking here, you know, just be there. There's not a necessarily a uniform person per number. They could change their uniforms. It's 40. Yeah. On my little computer. It's 40. See, so now we have 38 to 41. We have a range of temperatures. All right. It's 38-ish. Does that make you feel any better? Well, who wears 38-ish? That's exactly right. Who does wear 38-ish? I don't know. Like Bill Walton would have done that. But it feels colder than 38. It does, man. It's, it's, it's, it's because it's dreary. It's raining a little bit. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's very, it's very early spring feeling and not winter feeling. So that's at least nice. So, you know, I love, this is probably a good way to go.

4:03I like it when our show is on the air for like five seconds and I'm already getting corrections. Yeah. So earlier today, I sent out about noon time every day. I send out the food that we talk about in the inner-out segment. And so today is National Egg McMuffin Day. Okay. So it's National Egg McMuffin Day. And at the end of every ex-message, I always end it with like hashtag inner-out on hotline at 525. A guy responded to me and he goes, Dave, you didn't ask inner-out so I don't know what to say. I thought we've never had that kind of response in 13 years. So it made me respond. Do you remember in the movie back to school where Sam Kinnison yells at Rodney Dangerfield in class? Of course. Like, thank you, Mr. Helper. Yeah. You know, that's, so that's what I sent him. And that just that one little clip of Sam Kinnison being himself screaming at him in the movie back to school. Yeah. So, hey, that was good.

5:03That, the person who responded to that, that was Andy Smith. That's a hashtag 180 Club Dude. Yeah, that is okay. He knows the ins and outs of the show. Speaking of McDonald's. Did you see that TikTok that the McDonald's CEO was in? Well, the big arch is the rage, right? Yes. It's the rage. So I'm sure he's really happy about that gigantoburger. Maybe not. Maybe. What? So there, there was a TikTok of the McDonald's CEO where he, he was basically promoting the burger. And throughout the entire thing, he never calls it a burger or a sandwich. He calls it a product which is terrible, which I get it. Oh, no, you can legally call it meat. Yeah. But when he's, he's going in, he's, he's assuring the audience. I'm not going to eat it on camera, but I'm definitely having this for lunch. And then he takes a little bite and then he points the, the bite mark to the camera.

6:08You can tell it's a very small bite. And he's like, that's a big bite for a big arch. Yeah, we're talking about Chris Kempzinski. Yeah. He's a CEO of McDonald's and he's being mocked online with lots of, with lots of other videos of similar little, itty bitty bites. I just went back and watched it. And what I want to know for one minute could this dude, like whatever gilded lifestyle, and it could one minute, could he not have a moment of authenticity to his customer base? Understand who he's talking to and take an actual bite of the damn burger that his company makes. I mean, could you not, I think it's not going to kill you man. Just take a bite of the thing. How are you talking about? It's taken a little tiny bite to make it seem digger. It didn't work. It didn't work. I know that for like TV commercials, what little visual trick they'll do to make the, the burgers seem juicier is that they'll put like shoe polish on it.

7:09And if they have someone like eating the burger in the commercial, they'll have them like spit it out afterwards. But that's for television. And this is the CEO. There's all kinds of weird tricks that they use on those things to get the pictures a little good. But the whole point of being quote unquote viral. And see, this is another thing that we're going to have like a couple of years of quote unquote peak viral, you know, where things were relatively authentic things that would take that take on a viral sort of a viral sense to them. They were authentic. Right now everything is staged. Everything is so fake that we don't even have real viral things anymore. It's all fake viral things. So this, this blockhead taking a tiny little bite of his, his, his new burger. I mean, anybody in the world that has any sense at all would tell you to smash that thing in your face or pay somebody who will. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, two quick things about this. Number one. No, don't refer to it as the product. This product with the tomato product that we like on it and the dairy product that is melting all over it. It's very good with the bread product that has the seeds on it that comes from our seed product farmers.

8:12Don't call it the product. I mean, you can't see that on like the golden arches little banner like Bogo product. Like literally any, any, any transient person that you could grab with an idea. Hey, do you want to make a million dollars for a great commercial and eat this burger? Like you enjoy it. Yes, I will. And you can do anything. I can't wait for all of you to come to our restaurant locations to consume our product. Thank you. It's the worst. It's the worst. Survey says this product is delicious. Would you say stuff? I said he went viral for the wrong way. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And that's true too. Actually, you know, McDonald's stock is doing pretty well. No, sir. I mean, this McDonald's, this guy's not going to be able to derail McDonald's. Wow. It's a, it's a funny PR gaff, but of course it's not going to affect the stock price. It may be worth it. Maybe the eggs on our face. Maybe they, they got this guy out of central casting to take his tiny little bite so people would be like, also about to make a real bite out of them. Oh, can you, can you give him a little bit of slack? Remember that ad campaign for our alcohol.

9:13So hey, that's a spicy meatball where they, they showed the Italian couple of eating the spaghetti and they did like 50 takes or whatever. And by the time the guy got to take 50, he had such a bad heartburn that he had to take alcohol. So that was actually a pretty good campaign. So probably they need to do similar with this guy, right? They got it, they got to take him back to take him back into the shop. Tinker, tinker, tinker with him a little bit and then roll him back out there and have him eat like a mountain of fries. Well, it could be like a 30 part commercial where like the 30th commercial in the series, he finally finishes the burger. Yeah. Or how about if he goes to the restaurant with like a couple of regular customers and makes a comment about quote unquote the product and they, they slam him and then hey, this is really good. I'll never call it the, the big arch product again, but you know what, it's working. We're, we're talking about. That's what I mean. Maybe you know it, we're the ones with egg on our face. Yeah, but maybe you could have had gastric bypass surgery. That would be the most corporate thing ever, right?

10:14That you would end up as the CEO of McDonald's and you are unable to enjoy the product because of some surgical procedure. Yeah, I was thinking that like, what are my feelings after seeing this video? I could go to McDonald's, but I'm not going to buy the big arch now because like, I don't know, like even if it's the CEO, what's so bad about it that he doesn't want to see if you can take a bigger bite? No. Well, don't you want to go and step up to the counter and say you'd like to purchase the product and see the reaction? What, what's these counter things you're talking about? You may drive through. They'll just give you like a box of the raw unshapen meat that they use for the patties. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, Chris Kempzinski, the CEO of McDonald's getting roasted. This is a great Monday conversation. It is. After everything that happened over the weekend, this is a really awesome. Yeah, it is. It is. So how dad your weekend turned out?

11:14And I was, this was the first weekend. My household is still not 100% healthy, but this is really, I mean, they're getting over it. My wife's on the trail end of her most recent round of seconds. We all just keep them getting each other sick. Anyway, this is the first weekend of 2026 that I felt normal. So I was busy all weekend. I did a lot of work. War coverage is weird, right? Yeah. War coverage is weird. It's like, oh, by the way, so I was actually awake on Friday night and saw that the war was starting before CNN actually broke in. Oh, wow. So there's that really weird moment of like, is it or is it not happening? And once you get this thing confirmed, when are the networks going to break in and all that kind of stuff? And then you have that weird period where some people think they know what's going on. So you get like an hour of analysis on things that might have happened. Right. And you're sort of tied to the television because you don't really know if anything's really going to break out. Well, my wife woke me up. Okay.

12:14She was awake. She woke me up and I said, now I'll check in the morning. Yeah. Yeah. But we sort of predicted this late last week, right? I mean, this is the typical thing that it was going to break overnight and it was going to break after the markets closed and all that kind of stuff. War coverage is weird. If I would have been paying attention to the daying prediction markets, I probably could have made a couple of bucks. But you hear about that. But everything's a game anymore, right? Yeah. But I mean, accounts that were open like the day of the attack. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. No insider information there. Yeah, of course not. You know, I had a moment with my dad over the weekend. He said like, hey, in light of the recent news, do you want to watch Fargo with me? And I'm like, what does Fargo have? Man, that is the most bad thing I've ever heard. And I think to myself, what does Wisconsin have to do with Iran? And then I say, no, I'm playing games. I go down to the kitchen for a snack. He's watching Argo and I'm like, oh, there it is.

13:15Oh, okay, Argo. I got you. Hey, dad, great idea. Let me run out and get a couple of examples of the product and I'll be back in about 10 minutes. Oh, my goodness. That is pretty funny. Yeah. But the war coverage is weird. It's like when stuff starts, you're trying to figure, figure stuff out. Yeah. So obviously, if anything dramatic happens, they're in a course of the show. We'll let you know. We'll get you updates on that. Hey, couple, let me ask you a question. Are you into capital? Sure. Are you into capital? High school. In light of the snafu about the high school basketball regional seeding. I'm going to ask Carly when he gets here at five o'clock about this as well. Did you ever get the feeling when you played at capital that fans from smaller schools and smaller towns in West Virginia really didn't like you? Just because of the nature of the school that you were in. That is a loaded question for capital in 1989. Oh, I know it is. Yes, definitely. Yes, definitely.

14:15Yes, for multitude reasons. Yes. So do you think that this is probably going to be one of the first times ever that capital is going to have fans that they didn't even know they had because they feel like they got the screw job on this regional seeding deal? Because I kind of think they do. I kind of think they do. Yeah, maybe. I have a little bit of doubt for that. I mean, this isn't like... Capital high school is no Bret Hart. You know, it's not like... There's going to be a lot of people out there who's like, oh, I don't like capital very much. And they're going to be rooting for this. Oh, hey, Jeff. Hey, remember that time when like the governor sued the NCAA? Well, that wouldn't... Yeah, as well. Yeah, we've had a few of those. But quickly, your thought about people won't be rooting for capital. Oh, I already finished it. Oh, you're finished with that. But could you think there's something to that? I don't know. I kind of think there might be.

15:15You know, you mean people that will try to help protect the shield, you know, that it stands up for them? They feel like capital got a raw deal here. And their path to the state championship is unusually difficult because of the... The games they're going to have to play on the road to get back to Charleston and get back to home base. I kind of feel like, and this is a weird situation here, where suddenly capital, the big city school is kind of seen as the little engine that could. And if they do manage to get back to Charleston for the state tournament, they might have a little bit more fan involvement than before. Maybe. That would be fairly unique, I think, for it to happen to capital. But I'm here for it if that's the case. Are you saying that people are going to take pity on them? Well, not pity on them. They're kind of bucking the system. That they got a raw deal in this regional seating deal. And people like to get behind a story like this. So I'm just going to think there's a possibility that there might be more fans out there for capital.

16:16The main not have really even cared about them before that might just get behind them in this run to the state tournament if they get there. Jeff, what do you think about that? You think it's possible? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, there might be some... I mean, it's high school sports. So it may get more capital people interested on board. But if you've got a rivalry with capital, there are no love laws. They are right. That's true. I've never experienced anybody just catching strays of pity at capital, frankly. That's why I thought that the story was so unique. That it just seems like they got a raw deal here. People are talking about it. Let's face it. I mean, if they could get a whole football field out of it, that would be great. That would be great. Let me get the question of the day out. It is about sports today. Coop, do you know what today is? Monday. Yes. No, no. It's the anniversary of the day in 1962 when Wilts Chamberlain scored 100 points in a game.

17:21This is the anniversary of Wilts Chamberlain scoring 100 points in NBA in Hershey, Pennsylvania against the Nix. It remains one of the greatest records in sports history. So when it comes to scoring 100 or more points in a high school or college game, it's not as rare as you might think. There are actually 27 players who have done it in a high school game, 20 by male players, seven by female players. And there are seven 100 point games in college basketball, but none in a power conference situation. So the question of the day is this, will anyone score 100 points in an NBA game again? Will anyone ever score 100 or more points in a power conference college game? And which one of the so-called records that will never be broken, would you like to have? Will anybody ever score 100 points in an NBA game? Will anybody ever score 100 or more points in a college conference basketball game? And of the records that will never be broken supposedly, which one would you like to have to respond?

18:23Text those in 304, talk 304, 304, 304, 8255, 304. Tweet me, I'm on exit weekly, W-E-K-A-L-E-Y. All right, Jeff, what's up in the news today? What's going on? Several things happen at the legislature day because we're T minus 12 days before the end of the session. So up there today, in the Senate, Senator Joe Garcia of Marin County moved that bills be read, word for word, in their entirety because he's upset. Because of a bill that he is trying to get considered. He made a motion for it to be discharged to the floor to be debated and that his motion was not debated. Debated, they tabled his motion. So then he started asking for the bills to be read. So that's really slow things down in the Senate today. Also, we're watching a bill that's going to be supposed to be discussed by the Senate Judiciary Committee this afternoon. That would allow the state police to sell machine guns to residents.

19:28So that it's kind of an interesting bill. We'll see if that gets, if it goes anywhere this afternoon. Some just get a lot of people say, well, that's, you can't do that. That's illegal to do. I think there's some loophole that supporters are trying to use. So we've got that. We've got a murder in Hampshire County. Well, it's a, it's a death. It's not a murder to homicide. We've got that story at the website. And then a contractor who was working for CPS for the state was arrested on a DUI charge in Barbara County while transporting a child. You read about that too. Jeff, thank you. Okay. Appreciate that. Let's take a quick break. We're coming back with more in just a moment. This is a Bloomberg money minute. Tech shares are really leading the way higher on the NASDAQ. But there is still some worry about inflation. JP Morgan Chase, you know, Jamie Diamond is warning inflation could become a quote,

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23:40Join Chris Lawrence as he explores the wonders of our state's great outdoors. From fishing to hiking, hunting to conservation. It's an adventure you don't want to miss. This is Hotline, presented by Salango Law on Metro News, the voice of West Virginia. Good afternoon. It's 330 and 44 degrees in the capital city. I'm Morgan Pemberton inside the 580 WCHS radio newsroom. Still a slight drizzle in Charleston. We'll have more on AccuWeather after the news. The state's revenue collections once again exceeded estimates in February by $50 million. State revenue secretary Eric Nelson says that personal income tax and consumers sales tax are both doing well. When you look at which drive in the economy, you look at those two line items. Of course, those two line items also make up three quarters of our general revenue. Personal income tax collections were $31 million above estimate while consumer sales tax was $2.3 million above estimate.

24:42A House Judiciary Committee hearing testimony today from the public on a bill that aims to increase the prison time for murder convictions. The bill would raise the penalty for second-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, life sentences with mercy, and the recidivist life sentence. Many of the individuals who spoke were against the measure. Terry Castle, who was convicted of murder and served her time, says rehabilitation is real and can make convicted killers into different people. I've lived in a life right now that I've never lived before. I went to prison, which I'm sorry to say that it took that long for me to wake up. But that 16 years woke me up and up in my eyes. Charleston City Council meets tonight where they will vote on an amendment to the cities at stadium lease agreement with the ownership group behind the Charleston dirty birds. The current lease expires in May and the amendment will indicate that negotiations are continuing toward a long-term deal. Mayor Amy Schuler Goodwin says a new lease keeps the team here long term. It's a city facility, so we're trying to manage our budget and add the things that we can.

25:44We also look forward because what we want out of this is a long-term lease. That meeting will begin at seven to night. Metrono's AccuOther forecast says cooler and periods of rain this afternoon is 332 and 44 degrees in the capital city. I'm Morgan Pemberton and you're listening to 580 WCHS, the voice of Charleston. George Washington is the father of our country, but he cut his teeth in West Virginia. Long before he led the Continental Army, a teenage Washington surveyed our mountains from the Fairfax Stone to the natural springs and Berkeley Springs. He owned thousands of acres here, calling these mountains the key to America's future. Poka Valley is proud to be a part of America's 250th birthday, proudly serving our customers since 1908. Poka Valley where relationships matter, member FDIC. We have an updated sports on Joe Mercado on 580 WCHS, the WV men's basketball team snapped a three-game losing streak on Saturday, with a 79-71 win of a 19th ranked BYU.

26:48Five maths near scored in double digits and they were led by Adderhoff's 19 point effort. Now at 17-12, Huff says WVU enters the final week of the regular season with a lot to play for. We always want to focus on the next game at hand, but obviously we're not naive to the fact that we have two games guaranteed in the regular season. And obviously we still have a chance to do something special that we all want to do to go to the NCAA tournament, but can't have any slip ups. So I just think in turn our aggressiveness and assertiveness from the jump today really showed... The BYU visits Kansas State tomorrow night. Despite the loss to Georgia Southern and their regular season finale on Friday, the Marshall men's basketball team held on to the number two seed in the Sunbelt tournament. With this updated sports on Joe Piccato, 5-8-EW-UCHS. It's Dave Allen coming over to the next show, Rob Rio, on our Playback for Logan Elementary School and Kenawa County Board of Education candidate Dennis Brown will stop by. Place your call to text to you right here with Charleston WCHS. Alright, welcome back to the broadcast. Metro News hotline.

27:50Here for you every weekday afternoon beginning at 306 right up until 6 o'clock. Ryan has a story before he has to go. Yeah. But before we do that, let me do a quick re-7 or question of the day because we've got a classic response. A classic response. Because it was on this date in 1962 that Wilts Chamberlain scored 100 points in an NBA basketball game. So the question of the day and it's sponsored by Solango Law. Will anyone score 100 points in an NBA game ever again? Will anyone ever score 100 or more points in a power conference college game? In which of the so-called records that will never be broken, would you like to have? Textline 304-261. Dave, the question of the day has turned into three questions today. But to answer, no, no, and I can't remember the third question. No more calls, folks.

28:51We have a winner. Oh, by the way, speaking of that, it's sort of kind of got me kind of got me, you know, he got me where I lived. By the way, who the hot rumor is that the tickets Tuesday may be returning very soon. Yeah, what are we going to do there? Is it tomorrow or next week? I think we got to do one tomorrow. Is it tomorrow? We got to do one tomorrow. Let's will dust off the old tickets Tuesday and we'll do one tomorrow because we've got concert tickets coming up more than that tomorrow. But Ryan, what's your story? What's your story, Ryan? Yes. So yesterday I was driving home from Kroger's and I keep calling it Kroger's, but it's just Kroger. Anyway, I was driving on Virginia Street, East End of Charleston. That's like residential housing for people who aren't in the Charleston area. And in the middle of the street, there is a chicken and like a live, a live, a live, clucking chicken. And I knew what type of chicken it was to. It was a white silky. And I'm just like, where did this chicken come from?

29:54And of course, it got out of the way when I drove past it. But like after I put the groceries away at home, I went to the same spot because it was close enough to my house. And I couldn't find the thing and that's my story. Wow. Well, some people grow, you know, they don't grow them. They raise them. They raise them. So this one chicken was just out, you know, living his best life, thinking that, you know, one of this making neighborhoods. And the city was where he wanted to do a set up shop against it. I guess I hope it got home. I wonder if it escaped from my neighborhood. We had a house with a family that kept chickens in their back. And my daughter used to love to walk by and see the chickens. And they kept them in a coop in the back and everything. And then something happened to the family. I think maybe they separated or something happened. Not sure. Anyway, they left the house and left the chickens. And eventually the chickens just escaped. So there was like free-range chickens all over the neighborhood. So who knows where they went.

30:55You know, you can only have KFC, homemade KFC so many nights. That's true. So there you go. Well, if you're having an update, we'll break in. Sure. Oh, and coop will break in with our favorite. Oh, we do have it. Okay. So if we get a chicken update, we'll break it in. We'll break it in with this. See what we did there. That was art. Sometimes our cleverness is so knows no value. Sometimes the stars align just right. There you go. Hey, that's my story. I'll see you guys tomorrow. That's my story. I'm sticking to it better. You see that white silky, you know, the text line. All right. Here we go. Time for the sound of sports. NASCAR Monday in Austin yesterday. Tyler Redik's amazing start to the year continued. Redik held off Shane van Gisberger in over the final 20 laps

31:55of the circuit of America's to become the first cup series driver to win the first three races of the season. Well, they said this could not be done. Winning the first three races of an Ascar season, no one has ever done it. Not since 1949, it happens today. Three-peat for Tyler Redick, 23-11 and Tony. All right, Redick has built a commanding 70-point lead in the driver's championship points race. His 11th career victory yesterday was also his second at Coda, a track built for Formula One. And the first time he said multiple victories at a track, here's Redick on the win and holding off SVG in the final laps. We get going at the end there and I'm leading and there's SVG. They've been trying to beat for a while now and just to be able to outlast them there and hold on for the win is just incredible. We're just really proud of the show.

32:56I'm a casino toy to camera here, one to 23-11. We worked really hard. We did not like it and beat like that. It row courses and it's one race but it was so important, so fitting that we're able to get three in a row and make history. All right, women's college basketball, Sunday in Morgantown, WV dominated Cincinnati, 118 to 60. Sydney Shaw, Kiera Wheeler, Jordan Harrison and Gia Cook combined for 85 points. As the mountaineers hit a season high, 15-3s, Cook hit a pair of threes in the first half. As the mountaineers put this one away early. McCray with another rebound. Cook for three. Time winding down in the first half. Harrison took Cook at the buzzer. Mountaineers are now 24 and 6-14 and 4 in the big 12. They've earned a double buy in the conference. Turning quarter finals later this week. Here's WV coach Mark Kellogg on the win. Yeah, obviously proud of that one.

33:57It's fun when you see the ball go in at that rate. It doesn't always happen. As we all know, when that basket starts going in the rim just kind of seems to, I think, get bigger and bigger. I think these guys would agree with that. It starts to look pretty big and you're just playing with so much confidence and sharing the basketball. That was as complete of a game, I think, as we've probably played the entire season. WV is the number two seed in the big 12 women's turnie and will play on Friday at 6-30 against either Arizona, Arizona State or Iowa State. College baseball, WV took two or three at Kennesaw State over the weekend while in Huntington. Marshall won two or three from Butler. On Sunday, the herd beat the Bulldogs. Three to one, Kenyan Collins set a Marshall record with 14 strikeouts. I don't know that Greg Beals would think about taking the ball from him. He is locked in. Trying to motor his way through with two outs here in the six and David Ayers, who's over two, was behind nothing in two. Collins lets it fly.

34:58See you later. Eight pitches and another fist pump from the Kenyan Collins as a sophomore. Since the Bulldogs packing, here in the sixth. One nothing heard. Collins went eight and a third innings allowing just one run on four hits. Here's Greg Beals, the coach of the herd, on the victory and Collins dominant day on the mound. Yeah, well, it's obviously it's good to get the series win here at home and just being in the winning column. We played really clean baseball today and it starts on the mound. Kenyan Collins just pitched a great ball game. We played good defense behind him. We didn't need a ton of it because he struck out 14 guys. And here's Kenyan Collins, the former Kabul Midland High School standout after his 14 strikeout performance. I mean, I honestly just kind of went out there on the first inning. I didn't have a great group on the first at bat, but I feel like after that kind of settled in. Calm down a little bit. Just within that first inning. I just felt like I was in control of it.

35:58So MLB spring training today. The Reds are hosting the Cubs in Arizona while the Pirates and Rays are battling in Braytonton. Sunday in Jupiter, Florida, the Pirates topped the card 6-1. Connor Griffin did it again. Third home run in the spring and it came in the first inning. Leahy ready in the pitch. Kurt Ball swung on here in the air. Deep to left field. Davis back turning around and Connor Griffin is in another home run. The 19-year-old Pirates shortstop has homered two-nothing pirates. Third home run of the spring for Connor Griffin. Tell you what, Joe. What is so impressive about that is that the pass ball away. And then hit a hanging purple. This is Leahy's best fit. Hanging purple. He just deposited it. Left center building. It was a rocket. And here is Connor Griffin on trying not to get caught up in the spring training height. I try not to worry about too much of the future and just try to be the same guy every day.

37:00It's been a good spring so far, but still a lot of games to go. I'm just trying to be the most prepared for the season I can be. All right. Griffin's three spring training homers are time for the lead in the grapefruit and the cactus leagues in home runs to this point with three. On the ice, on Sunday in Pittsburgh, the penguins beat the Vegas Golden Knights 5-nothing. Pens are 10-1-3 over the last 14 games. Ben Kindle, a first round pick last year who won't turn 19 until next month, scored his 15th goal of the season with five minutes left in the opening period. Carlson will take over. Maybe the fastest first period I've been involved with. I'm just going to think of the same thing. I don't know if I've been in a game like this. Here's Ben Kindle scores. Ben Kindle, steps one by eight and killed. And it's Pittsburgh on for my story of the lead. The penguins went on to win that game over Vegas 5-nothing. The penguins will visit the Bruins tomorrow night in Boston and in New York, a wild finish for the Islanders and the two-time defending Cup Champion Florida Panthers.

38:04After Florida tied the game with just under two minutes to go, the Isles Anders Lee scored with 32 seconds left to give him a 5-4 win. Off the draw to her Higgy at the half wall and it is the Angelo to skate onto the puck. And this time the boys' icing gets it out to the red line. Across the line comes Lee to the next. Yeah! Anders Lee with a half minute to go. And the Islanders have the lead back. It's a good win. And it's a really good answer by the Islanders. The Islanders have now won five straight. And finally, back to Men's College basketball. Ohio State got its best win of the season on Sunday. In Columbus, the Buckeyes stunned Purdue 82-74. Amari Bynum came to the rescue late. After the Buckeyes built a six- possession for Buckeyes here. Big possession for Buckeyes here. This won't leave the backstreet. Oh, what a pass. It's quick. Bynum, three, go!

39:07Hard to believe. It's Smith. It's Murphy. Boyle on three, good. Two. Point two on the top. The end bomb. That's it. The Buckeyes have just picked up their biggest one other season. So that was a big three for Bynum. The Buckeyes had a 16-point lead in the second half. But the boilers won on a 12-2 run to pull within six. Then Bynum hit that three with just over two minutes to go to seal the deal. Ohio State, they're 18-11. They're 10-8 in the big 10. And they're going to play at Penn State on Wednesday night. They'll be favored in that game. All right, so that is going to do it for the sound of sports. Let's take a quick break. We will come back with the good, the bad, and the ugly from the weekend in just a moment. Starting March 10th, Metro News brings you the 2026 West Virginia SSAC High School Basketball Championships presented by Chick-fil-A. First title, first spring mills and boys basketball.

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45:20And it is time for the good, the bad and the ugly. Time to start the week with a segment that puts the spotlight on the best and the worst of the weekend. It puts things into perspective. We stole the title from one of our favorite movies, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I've got my list, Coupesys. We have not seen each other's list, so let's begin. Coup, what is your good for this Monday? I have to tap into College of Basketball a little bit. Yukon Husky's finished the regular season, 31 to 0, 31 to 0. Or that they're at right now after winning in Saint John's 85 to 49 over the weekend in Women's Basketball. That's a huge, huge accomplishment for a Women's Basketball team to go undefeated. Yukon seems to be the team that does it every once in a while. Yeah, you're right, you're right. You know, it's amazing when you think about it. Just the quality of play, the level of play that has occurred in Women's Basketball over the last quarter century. It's kind of crazy. You used to be when Yukon was doing those things, they were like the only team around. There's a lot more competition now than they're used to be. That's for sure. Yeah, I mean, there have been dominant women's teams in the past, but Yukon's right there.

46:22That's a good one. Are you my good? Hey, man, do you see where WV won a game on Saturday? Yeah, upset BYU. So, you know, we had a bunch of guests last week who were saying that WV was out of the at large conversation, the NCAA tournament. It's not over till it's over, Cooper. It's not over till it's over. So you got a couple of games this week. West Virginia goes out to play case state tomorrow night. They should be favorite in that game. The case state is is a grease fire next weekend. West Virginia hosts UCF. That's another opportunity to get a quality quad one win. So we'll see what happens, but it was a really good win for West Virginia against BYU on Saturday. What is your bad? I'm not bad. I just have to dip my toe into this. It's been in the news all over the place recently. This merger where Paramount's agreeing to buy Warner Brothers Discovery. The only reason not for any of the political things, there's a bunch of stuff. It's never good for consumers when this stuff happens. It's never, ever good for you and me from a content perspective. Maybe investors or whatever, but although that's not looking great either.

47:24I'm just saying from a content perspective, it's never good news. So that's my bad. Yeah, that's funny. So now you have fewer and fewer players in the pool controlling media. You're ever good. And the news out today that Paramount plus and HBO, that's going to be one app. Great. That's going to be one app. My bad. I don't know. Did you see the story about Mickey Andrews? The longtime assistant football coach at Florida State. Very well-known coach this weekend. It was one of those social media rumors that he's dead. He's not dead. He's still alive. Wasn't Abe Bogota one of the first people that he used to do that with all the time online? Yeah. This just in. Mickey Andrews. Still alive. Still alive. 84 years old. And he's still kicking despite the social media reports this weekend. That a lot of people responded to. Now Mickey Andrews is still alive. Ari, what's your ugly? With a with a lockout on the horizon for Major League Baseball sometime within the next year. This your last week, the Supreme Court keeps baseball's anti-trusted shield intact.

48:27Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear a case challenging baseball's longstanding anti-trusted exemption, leaving the judge made a shield in place. And again, sort of like nothing's ever good for consumers. That's not good for the players or for competitive market balance. You know, I had something else but I'm going to follow up on that with my ugly. I don't know if you saw this story today, but it looks like Major League Baseball next spring, instead of spring training, is already planning on having youth prospect tournaments. Oh, cool. That they're going to be rolling out there. Oh, that's like, you know, crossing the line. Yeah, so they think that those tournaments will be, would they'll be able to sell tickets to those instead of spring training games, because it looks like we're looking at a lockout for sure in 2027. That's like seeing your freezer repairman playing on the Sundays in the NFL box during the strike days, all right? That's right. That's right. That's the good, the bad and the ugly for the weekend. We'll take a break and come back and wrap our number one in a moment. Metro news hotline presented by Salango Law will return right after these messages.

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